Polish the Mirror

Posted on April 26, 2024 by ehurst

I’m still convinced that apocalypse is kicking off this year. It’s been creeping up on us for quite some time, but it’s actually here now. When this summer’s heat begins sweeping over the nation, things will go seriously wrong.

Give God the glory. I believe I see how His hand is working, how His wrath will fall on America. It will be a confluence of streams of awareness. Naturally, some of it will be false, but there will also be some accuracy mixed in there. People will react and there will be significant unrest in America.

The Hoards of Darkness have been released. You should not imagine that the reaction lies within the people. Rather, it will be how they are provoked by demon spirits that hope to abuse them. Humans will go nuts; the people will destroy their own nests. They will feel pain, and begin to imagine that certain actions will benefit them, but it won’t.

In other words, don’t be fooled by false moral claims made by various activists. It’s a trap. They will feel the urge to take action on something that will not turn out well. They will be motivated by massive lies.

A prime example is the surging campus protests against Israel, in favor of the Palestinians. Yes, Israel is doing evil. But the people agitating about this are wicked in themselves. The actions they take will not solve the problem, but create whole new problems. Keep your eye on this movement; it will not simply fizzle out. It will become the new target of government oppression, because our government is Zionist.

This article warns that these protests will be hijacked largely because the protesting already involves the likes of Antifa and BLM in the movement. It’s funded by the same money that created so much havoc a few years ago.

Also keep an eye on how mainstream churches react to this. They will start making a lot of noise and moving money toward suppressing this movement. It’s another trap Satan is using to keep the Elect from their divine inheritance. It’s the tail end of Dispensational heresy. I say “the tail” because I’m quite certain Israel will be destroyed, though perhaps not completely. It will be a huge mess.

I’m not saying this will become the issue of this time in history, but it will loom large on the public awareness. Do you understand that the demons are provoking both sides? Here is a reasonable analysis of likely complications, but none of these are the real issue.

Others have joined me in saying that the real issue here is infowar. The violence and military action is a manifestation; the real battle is in the minds of men. The fruit of falsehood is ripening; this is the time for massive destruction here in the West. The Lord has decreed it, according to warnings long ago. Even if the issue with Israel’s current warfare dies down, something else will take its place. The masses are being driven mad, same as the political leadership.

Don’t get lost in trying to defend the wrong things. Any partisan divide is an illusion. The only thing that matters is divine justice, the call to redemption in the Covenant of Christ. The biblical term “salvation” refers to claiming one’s place in the Covenant, of harvesting the blessings of peace with God. That’s all we have, the only thing we can keep, the only thing that will follow us into Eternity.

Polish up the mirror of your soul to reflect His glory.

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Limited Reach

Posted on April 25, 2024 by ehurst

I’m prompted to address something that may not be obvious.

As always, I don’t take myself that seriously. For now, I’m the senior elder for a small community of people who identify with the label “Radix Fidem”. The vast majority of what I say to that community is just my own convictions and echoes of my experiences and education.

The community is defined as people who seem interested in what I have to say about faith and religion. When I die or simply quit writing, someone else can play the role of elder and shape things to match their convictions, experiences and education. God forbid that what I taught should become law.

If you should ask how much authority I have, the answer is, “however much you give me”. I have neither the ability nor inclination to spank anyone in the community, as I did with my children many years ago. It should be pretty obvious: If I sense you aren’t listening, I’ll stop talking to you. That also answers the question of how much authority I ought to have.

When I read stuff around the Net, I keep running into this unspoken assumption that religious leaders should be engaging society from a position of authority. I call that “idiocy”. It’s not a question of whether I have answers that might work for some problems. God always has the answers, and I’m quite convinced He has given me some that work for me. Apparently they work for others, which is how we have a community.

But the whole point is that a very essential element of His answer for me is to withdraw from the society at large as much as possible. Anyone who wants to join me will have to do the same, because I’m not a part of that world. There’s that business of “in the world, not of it”. My withdrawal is more a matter of moral principle than literal distance. I’m walking in the Covenant, and that’s very different world, invisible to everyone outside the Covenant.

As far as I’m concerned, the world outside of my covenant boundaries is marked for destruction. It’s built on sand, not on the rock of Christ. Even if I devote myself to serious academic pursuit of God’s revelation, the result is something the world cannot use. The world at large cannot even understand it.

When someone representing the world asks questions, it’s highly unlikely they’ll have any use for my answer. Sometimes I honestly don’t try to answer, but on occasion I’ll feel moved to give some partial answer that they might be able to grasp. There’s always that business of using a common language, and my Lord does seem to like helping me express His truth in terms people can understand, even if they would never have the power inside of them to use it.

Part of the reason for doing that is much like that time Jesus spoke of Bread of Life (John 6). He ended up polarizing His audience that day, and the circus ended. The time had come to finally alienate those who could never understand. The principle is more important than the specific answer.

I cannot pretend to ignore: There’s a whole world out there filled with nonsense. Most of the questions they seem to ask are the wrong questions in the first place. I’m working from the Bible and my convictions. Neither of them addresses what defines “man/male” and “woman/female”. If you struggle with that, you are the problem. The Bible presumes that the answer to this question is already obvious. And it doesn’t recognize any other genders. Thus, I don’t need to address any of that.

What should we do with a woman who feels driven to be more than just a mom and housewife? What if she has talents and interests outside the home? Well, her male covering decides what she can do about it, not me. Talents and human ambition don’t count for much in the Covenant. Oh, wait; I forgot to state the obvious that the Covenant presumes a feudal tribal household arrangement as the norm. But the answer is the same for men — their talents and ambitions don’t mean much, either. You live in the context and seek to glorify His name.

If a man dealing with a restive wife/daughter asks my advice, we’ll talk about it in the context of how he lives. In the final analysis, he has to decide what he will do. As previously noted, the Covenant generally denies the concept of human equality when it comes to making decisions about life. Feudalism is wired into Creation itself.

The vast majority of the world has no interest in such answers. The world cannot imagine that God designed human existence that way. Well, that’s my answer. If you want my spiritual covering, you’ll have to embrace it. Otherwise, there’s not much I can do for you.

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Very Limited Engagement

Posted on April 24, 2024 by ehurst

I suppose I need to try one more time, maybe saying it differently.

Comments I get in response to this blog, the ones that aren’t posted where you can see them, include input from a bunch of people who are eager for the entertainment value of warfare. These are people who have never actually done warfare, so they have a childlike expectation of what we see in movies. They imagine it would be such a fine thing to see violent civil war break out in the US.

I want no part of that nonsense. I do not advocate violence on that level; it has no place in covenant living. The Radix Fidem community predicts war will come despite our best efforts, so we are preparing to stay out of the way as much as possible. And there’s no denying it will entertain some folks, at least for a while.

But it won’t come with a happy ending. Indeed, there may be no clear resolution of any sort. I believe that, once started, it will drag on for decades. It will pull down the West in general, and America in particular, back into a Third World status. Not everywhere the same, but the nation as a whole will cease to offer any significant influence on the rest of the world.

We do not advocate taking sides. We openly discourage participation, but we cannot pretend to tell you what God calls you to do. We distinguish clearly between defending your own domain versus getting involved in broader conflicts that don’t actually include us.

We are excluded from politics by our adherence to the Covenant, against the complete lack of Covenant identity in the American population. If by some miracle a small body of covenant people were to come together somewhere, then they would have a basis for discussing community defense. But as long as the Lord keeps us thinly scattered, it is purely a matter of you deciding by conviction what you must defend against all outside forces. Nobody engaged in this rising conflict represents us.

They don’t even see us. If someone attacks you with physical violence, it is virtually impossible that they do it for your faith. It is because you and I look to them like part of the broader target they imagine they see. But more realistically, it’s because they are not ideological warriors; more likely they are common criminals seeking plunder and you appear to be a likely target, for whatever reason. This is our biggest threat heading into the apocalypse.

The politics of civil war will bypass us completely. It is not the political battles that will define our place in the big picture. You can easily avoid that; you don’t have to take sides. The only realistic scenario for joining with the local community is simple crime prevention. That’s an entirely different issue from the political nonsense. You can make common cause on those grounds, if the folks around you are willing (if there is a consensus).

This is something we would encourage. This is not what Jesus meant by discussing who your “neighbor” is. He referred to covenant brothers and sisters. We don’t have that; our social concept of “neighbor” is different. It’s not the same principle underneath, but it probably will look almost the same in practice. You should be taking care of the folks who live near you, simply because that’s your best hope for mundane safety and security of property, life and limb. They are allies, if not family. If you can’t work with them, then of course, you are on your own. And God help you if that’s how it is.

Theoretically, the only way I could become a threat to government is if the government begins attacking property, life and limb directly. Idiotic policy is one thing; trying to confiscate or harm common people directly is another. I think we can tell the difference between a government that tries to grab criminals, and one that is criminal itself. We cannot stop what happens at the policy level without using weapons of mass destruction to take out the whole government bureaucracy. I’m not going to go there; it’s far outside my mission for Christ. However, should government policy send agents into the community for something that strikes me as seriously harmful, then government agents will be at risk. Yes, I’ll use violence to defend the folks around me from almost any threat.

Where I live, that is so unlikely that it’s ludicrous. It’s not on my radar at all. Prophetically I see serious problems arising from the breakdown of social restraint. That’s the real issue for me, and I’m convinced that’s what we face in the Radix Fidem community as a whole. If you want to discuss tactics and strategy with me, then let’s target that issue. I will not address the wider political nonsense, because most of it is for show, not the real problem.

The Covenant of Christ offers no solution for political problems outside our community. We might have some useful advice, but it’s not our problem. Christ said so. Our problem is operating and thinking on the human small scale to breathe life into a broad vision of redemption. This how we save the world, by focusing on what’s nearest. Defending yourself means defending those geographically near you; that’s simple common sense. If those near you are the threat, you need to pray seriously about moving somewhere else. A general crime prevention custom is as much entanglement with the world as we can afford in feudal service to our Lord.

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Tragedy and Discord

Posted on April 23, 2024 by ehurst

It’s a sad tale that justifies telling one more time. However, the approach is probably different from anyone else’s published discussion. Granted, I read a lot of those published reports and some not-so-public comments by those who were close to the sad story of Amy Grant and Gary Chapman. Even if I were to interview them personally, I doubt I could have gotten a better idea of what happened than I did from the sheer volume of reading.

I looked at this over the years and recently it occurred to me they were a perfect example of certain basic principles.

First, let’s be clear: They were never covenant people. In that sense, they were never actually following Christ. They were churchians who were trying hard in the flesh to play by the rules of American cultural Christian religion. Neither of them were very good at it for very long. They never had the living Christ at the center of their marriage, and never got His covering.

Second, that marriage was doomed from the start because it was built on fantasies that are easily understood from the so-called Red Pill Manosphere. An honest accounting of human socio-sexual dynamics is part of the Covenant, so those two perspectives belong together.

Chapman was a doofus. He broke the first rule of Christian marriage: he pursued Amy Grant. Men of God do not pursue any woman, ever. We should pursue Christ and see if any women are attracted by that. More to the point, we wait to see what sort of women are drawn to us, and select from among them. Chapman pursued Amy Grant and she was way out of his league.

Grant was inexperienced, and still sticking around the church scene because that was her nest. She never belonged there. Notice what I’m saying here. It’s not that she couldn’t get it together and really commit to Jesus. She simply didn’t. She was acting in her natural fleshly self, and the path was obvious in retrospect.

But in her youthful ignorance, she fell under the sway of “propinquity”. She hung out with Chapman enough to become fond of him, so getting married didn’t seem such a bad idea. Especially with him pursuing her like a love-sick puppy.

She was the sexual superior the whole time. He supplicated; he surrendered his headship from day one. He never came close to ringing her bell. And he wasn’t strong enough to serve her inside his own soul. He turned to drugs and alcohol. He was a terrible husband. No one who knew them was surprised she fell for someone else, someone who was much more manly.

And lest we forget, the vast majority of the Contemporary Christian Music scene is just like that. The people who run that business were not covenant people; most don’t even qualify as churchian. Most of the artists have displayed the kind of mixed moral living that is common with people struggling in the flesh to be what they claimed. They have little to no power because they are outside the Covenant. They aren’t wicked, just misguided.

There will always be a few people of genuine faith in that market. It may be hard to pick them out, but your best bet is consistency, not talent. It’s the witness. Almost none of the people qualify as spiritual leaders. Talent is not a substitute for feudal submission to the Lord in a divine calling. Indeed, talent seems to correlate highly with lack of self-control and moral maturity.

It’s not about the music folks. Whatever it is you do, never get hung up on the beauty of the performance. It’s all about whether you really connect with the Lord, alongside everyone else connecting with Him. It’s just as well you get together with some hack talents among your friends and perform those songs for yourself in a jam session. Don’t buy the albums or marketing crap that comes with them.

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The Necessity of Destruction

Posted on April 22, 2024 by ehurst

The problem is not that some women work outside the home, pursue a career and have no inclination to marry. The problem is that they want it. It’s the dominant pagan idolatry in the West. As long as they keep wanting that, western society is doomed.

Even without a biblical perspective, it doesn’t require intellectual genius to see how destructive it is if the next generation isn’t born because there are no mothers. The current social malaise is not helped at all by the refusal of mothers to mother.

As a verb, “mother” includes starting out with the assumption of picking a good father, never mind whether he gives you massive tingles, and sticking with that man for the sake of your children. If women don’t understand the necessity of having a father in the house, there is nothing to discuss.

But of course, this blog is all about the Covenant of Christ. That Covenant is expressed, in part, in Biblical Law. And Biblical Law is all about subsuming your personal desires under the demands of Christ’s glory. Your personal desires come mostly from fallen flesh. If you don’t deny your fleshly nature, there is no hope of understanding anything in the Bible.

Yes, the only valid reason for getting married is a commitment to the Covenant of Christ. It’s the only valid reason for any and all human decisions. So every man must keep his eye on feudal submission to Christ and let His Lord arrange a pairing, or not, as He sees fit. Don’t pursue a gal who calls out to your flesh. Your taste in female flesh is always wrong — in the sense that it’s always wrong to trust your tastes for much of anything.

And women should know that their first commission from God is to consider how they must fulfill the demands of spiritual bridehood first. The vast majority of the time that means being the bride of some human servant of His. This should be your normal expectation, and it should be a surprise when convictions and events lead you in any other direction.

And it will be on you, ladies, whom the Lord wants you to marry (since we have no valid covenant community to guide your instincts). Your choice should be based on that long term commitment to Christ’s glory and the growth of the Covenant message. Marry the man you want to father your children. Make sure you bring to him the full value of your maidenhood.

It is only our culture that encourages men to wander. It’s a basic flaw of the flesh, but our western culture blows it out of proportion. With only a little basic Biblical Law teaching, men can easily squelch that monster. Women are not so easy, because their instinct to trade up to a better tingle experience is far stronger than a man’s similar temptations. This is why Biblical Law is so hard on women; it’s just reality after the Fall.

In other words, our American society is so utterly alien to the Covenant of Christ, so truculently hostile to His reign, that it will have to be destroyed for there to be any hope for even a small recovery of covenant living. Yes, we can blame our social culture for the coming apocalypse.

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Random Photos 18

Posted on April 21, 2024 by ehurst

One day last week I took a longish ride into Downtown OKC. I was hoping to see some of the new projects our tax dollars have funded. But what caught my attention first that day was the low-flying clouds that obscured our tallest skyscrapers. Imagine the view from the top. The sun did break through later, but not completely. The day was in and out of clouds until the afternoon.

This occupies a space very hard to use. It was previously just some grass and a tree or two, in a triangular island between streets that converged. That huge cylindrical fixture in the middle is covered in “OKC” lettering at all angles. Inside is nothing more than a bed of gravel, and you can’t access it normally. Still, if you don’t mind the noise of traffic, it’s a nice place to sit in fine weather.

There aren’t many angles where you can capture this all-glass mirrored tower. I’m sitting in a space referred to as “the Commons” because the park is shared by several buildings, including one that houses some OKC tourism offices and so forth. At least, that’s what the signs led me to believe. I never bothered to get the name of the mirrored building; I was more interested in simply how it looks. The city has cleaned up nicely, so far.

This is the front of the historic Skirvin Hotel. There was considerable drama over the years before this place was restored to actual use as a hotel. It sat empty for a while, but eventually was rescued after some bigshots made noises about tearing it down. It’s the same anywhere else: The people who most wanted to save it were those who could never afford to spend a single night there. It’s a lovely building, though.

During portions of my childhood, I lived in or near the downtown area of OKC. One of my strongest memories was this old Downtown Library. I knew where everything was and went often to dig up books on subjects that were quite obscure. Then they built this nice-looking place in honor of some previous mayor who wanted his name on some stuff. The newer one does offer a few advantages over the old one, but to be honest, the Internet outshines it these days. No surprise that the majority of those who visit do so for the free wifi. But the building still houses some pretty rare volumes, so it’s not a complete waste.

We’ve got several of these skybridges around the city. This one was easy to capture because there was a safe place to stand out of the traffic. To be honest, a major part of this trip was to find objects that would make good blog header images, but this one just didn’t seem to hit that purpose. The view is looking north along the western boundary of the heaviest developed parts of Downtown OKC. There are a few nice things west of this street, but the skyscrapers pretty much stop on that line. And just for balance, I believe there are still a bunch of underground corridors that connect a lot of buildings, too.

The Devon Tower is currently the tallest building we have. It’s easy to find lots of nice pictures of the front, or of the whole thing, but I was looking for views you might miss if you weren’t paying attention. Then again, they had a crew busy with renovating the flower beds and blocking the view of some nice architectural art. I’ll get that on another visit some time. But on the day I went up last week, this caught my eye. The pillars and curved wall, with water at the foot, shadowed by the trees along the walk… You’d never know where it was if I didn’t tell you.

As part of the Devon Tower facilities, there is a terribly expensive restaurant (by local standards) called “Vast“. The street entrance is next door to the Devon Tower, but the restaurant’s main venue is up near the top of the tower. This is its own entrance on the side of the tower, and you can see there is some lounging space here at ground level. You can find reviews and tons of photos online if that’s your kind of thing. I can’t afford a glass of water at places like this.

It doesn’t have a Wikipedia page, but the Colcord Hotel is OKC’s other historic hotel building. It was the first “skyscraper” in the city, built in 1910. It’s currently run by Hilton. Continuing east from the Devon Tower, this is next to the Vast and offers its own fancy restaurant with outdoor seating. I like the way it looks, but it’s another place I could not afford to visit. The hotel itself simply isn’t much to look at, but it still have guests every day of the year. The location is the key for this one’s longevity, right in the heart of Downtown OKC.

This fountain is very popular; I had to wait a while to catch it with no tourists hanging around on it. Later this summer it will never be alone. From what I heard, the stones are native to Oklahoma, of course, just not from this area. It’s one entrance to a large complex called Myriad Gardens. There was crew ripping into the flower beds here, so I didn’t want to take too many pictures of the rest of it. This fountain is relatively new; the gardens have been here in one form or another for a very long time, and covers an entire city block in the most expensive real estate I know about in this state.

The centerpiece of the Myriad Gardens is the Crystal Bridge. It’s been there since my youth, but it’s seen an awful lot of renovation. The thing is not a really solid structure. Inside is a botanical garden that used to be free access. Now you have to pay to get in. But the cascading levels of paths and sitting places is very popular in warmer weather. You’ll find the place packed with folks bringing their lunch during most summer work days. I believe the far side still offers a small outdoor public performance venue. I have no idea who performs in there, but I have seen it listed a few times.

Just a block away from the Myriad Gardens is the Scissortail Park, something I’ve featured before on this blog. The thing that caught my eye was this snackbar called Spark, with a high hat so you can find it from other parts of the park. You probably should see the whole thing from Google Earth or some other satellite view that has kept up with development. This building is on the north end of the park.

Below are a few blog header cuts from the visit. As always, all of my images are free for use:


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NT Doctrine — 1 Thessalonians 4-5

Posted on April 20, 2024 by ehurst

The last two chapters of Colossians, and the first three chapters of this letter are either encouragement or personal matters between Paul and readers. We note in passing that this was likely the first apostolic epistle of Paul’s career. He wrote from Corinth back to Thessalonica because they had only three weeks of ministry before Paul was chased out of town.

In the first part of this chapter, Paul recounts some basic guidelines for walking in Christ. The sexual restraint Jesus and His apostles taught came as a cultural shock to Gentiles in that part of the world. However, the moral purity of caring for each other was not so foreign, and with the energizing guidance of the Holy Spirit, the church had learned sacrificial love very quickly. But because the Macedonians were not known for working all that hard, it would be too easy for them to decide that brotherly affection meant they could sponge off each other. Thus, Paul warns them to provide for themselves.

The big issue is the Resurrection. Keep in mind that for most pagans in the old Greek Empire, there was no such thing as a Spirit Realm. For them, this realm of existence is all there is. Should there be an afterlife, it would have to be some place in this world that most mortals never see. Thus, it’s quite natural that they would assume those who came to Christ, but then died, were gone forever. The teaching of a Spirit Realm was simply too new.

Paul says that, if Jesus died and rose again, then so could all their fellow believers who lay in the grave. Paul even uses the term “fell asleep” to make this point. Not only will the dead believers rise at Christ’s return, they get to join Him first. Then, those who see Him come while still alive will get to watch them all rise from their graves, to follow behind them to meet Him in the air.

As to when that Day will be, no human can possibly know. Paul uses the image of a thief in the night. The prompt for such a thing comes completely from the outside, as does all the planning and execution. Nothing you can imagine as making sense of such a thing has any bearing on the matter. The only thing we can do is be ready because we’ve been warned that it will happen.

Sleeping in the grave is one thing; sleeping on the job is a huge mistake. Paul beats that into the ground here so it doesn’t move from their sight. Faith is our armament against being caught off guard.

The chapter ends in a laundry list of what faith moves us to do in preparation.

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High Trust Is the Devil’s Playground

Posted on April 19, 2024 by ehurst

This is connected to The Inherent Impurity of Monsters posted yesterday; this is a corollary.

Our Radix Fidem community is familiar with the important truth behind high-trust and low-trust social structures. We keep warning folks that, while a high-trust society is more comfortable and conducive to material prosperity, it’s not the way the Bible looks at the world. The Covenant has always been aimed at creating a high trust in the Lord, and no more than moderate trust in each other.

You cannot trust yourself. More specifically, you are two people in one, a fleshly mortal being and an eternal being. You cannot trust your fleshly nature; it will consistently lead you wrong. You’ll spend the rest of your life trying to discipline the flesh. If you try hard enough, and live long enough, you may be able to instill enough discipline that others can hold a moderate trust in your flesh. Few get there.

When are you are in the company of the few who have pushed that hard for some years, then you call them “elder” in one sense or another, because they can be trusted somewhat. They are reliable enough that you don’t watch them like a hawk, but also don’t revere them as somehow “holy” and untouchable. Wise elders always keep people around who will not hesitate to set them straight. Wisdom means not trusting your own flesh, ever.

As James said in his letter to Hebrew believers: Temptation is not externally sourced (James 1:13-25). It always comes from within. God doesn’t “allow” temptation, but He does commission testing. The weak spot is in you already. You are tempted because you have a fleshly nature. This is the ancient Hebrew understanding; it’s behind the teaching of Jesus, and His brother learned it well.

Modern church leaders get into trouble because they can. They live with temptation day and night, and the Devil is going to use his lackeys to make those compromising offers. The only way to keep your hands clean is to keep them exposed to people who know you.

It is human fleshly stupidity to seek, or even permit, the company of sycophants. They should give you the willies. Keep them at arm’s length; it’s called “holy cynicism”. An elder/priest should be eager to keep the low-trust social structure of the Covenant alive. This is why the Old Testament is loaded with low-trust protocols. A high-trust social structure is the Devil’s playground.

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The Inherent Impurity of Monsters

Posted on April 18, 2024 by ehurst

If you don’t embrace the Doctrine of Divine Election, then this blog isn’t going to offer you much. I take it seriously; it’s a necessary prerequisite for almost everything I write. Naturally, it’s a fundamental element in any criticism I offer to the mainstream, Big Eva in particular.

If you believe in Election, then it changes everything. The whole image of what a church does changes. There is no task so important as teaching the members of the body how to love each other. And in case you missed it in previous posts: That demonstrable love is evangelism. Everything else you say and do will mean nothing compared to that one factor.

Thus, the whole raison d’etre of every organized church body is to work on this one thing of learning how to love the way Christ loves His followers. That is the core of the Covenant of Christ; it was the one and only “law” He stated shortly before His death. Naturally, loving the Father is the a priori prerequisite, but it is assumed by the definition inherent in “loving as God loves”. You cannot know His love without loving Him.

The Body of Christ grows when the Elect see the kind of love they need in their lives. It calls to them. That’s the whole mission. Whether or not it draws anyone else is not the point; the only reason we do anything is to draw closer together with other elect folks. That’s the ultimate power in the universe; it is the essence of spiritual warfare against evil in every high place, both human and eternal.

Every week some new event shows up in church news about this or that monster church. It’s an abomination that monster churches exist. To build one requires a mindset that ignores Election and the mandate to love as Christ loves. There is way too much going on that cannot be justified under Election and love from the Cross. In order to build a monster church, you have to abandon that foundation and build on something else.

We live in the age when the Father calls to Himself those who worship Him in spirit and in truth, not in massive temples fixed in one place or another. There is no excuse for investing money, resources and manpower in those massive temples. There is no excuse for leaving the simple tribal-feudal association of people who gather with priest and elder to reaffirm what Christ has done and said.

Sure, you can have senior elders who coordinate between multiple bodies, but no group should be bigger than one leadership team can know, and know well, one on one. If there are people in the church body they don’t know well, and that don’t know them well, and the way things are conducted does not remedy this, then there are too many people in that body.

Whence comes the temptation for secret dealings that result in corruption in monster churches? It starts by having an organization and facility large enough to hide sin. It starts when the leadership have so much to organize and manage that they can be remote from any part of the congregation. When any portion of the church body can’t get close to know what the leadership smell like when they need a bath, then the organization is too big. (Think about that on more than one level.)

The Covenant has always rested on having people who live in each others’ armpits. A covenant cannot work any other way. If you have a senior elder, then all the junior elders need to be in his armpits; the same goes with a priesthood. Everybody needs to be totally exposed to multiple people who will hold them accountable to the Covenant.

The secrecy is rooted in a felt need to protect something other than the Covenant and the covenant family’s love. If it’s possible to get away with sin, even for a very short time, then you are doing something very, very wrong on the way there.

There’s more…

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Fear Porn Marketing

Posted on April 17, 2024 by ehurst

I always glimpse at Corbett Report, but seldom find it worth my time because he’s trapped in the loop on trying to make the world a better place. Still, once in a while he says something that is going to endure across the ages. In this podcast interview Corbett says a couple of those things.

1. Everyone draws their “crazy line” differently. We all have one, a boundary beyond which we consider it crazy nonsense to go. The reason Corbett doesn’t draw my interest is that he draws my ministry outside his crazy line. I’m not complaining; I’m explaining why I don’t bother with most of his output. (The other reason is that I consider his partner, Pilato, inexcusably annoying; I’m convinced he does it on purpose.)

2. Much more important is that the podcast host and Corbett both agreed that there is some senseless obsession with fear porn (they didn’t call it that) in the dissident media. Every day, the dissident media comes up with a bunch of warnings about what They are doing to us. It’s a very addictive thing for audiences. What few notice is that it makes you feel helpless unless you have plans to act illegally. And of course, all of that becomes steered in certain directions that constitute a kind of trap.

And Corbett touched on why this dominates the alternative media: (a) It’s a sales pitch and (b) it’s exactly what TPTB want us to believe, that we are helpless. This is why I say that people like Alex Jones are “controlled opposition”. They keep insisting that something is going to happen on this or that date, and it seems nobody notices that it never does. Instead, the announcer has moved on to some other threat. It’s all theater.

The other trick is that controlled opposition will always have one thing they simply refuse to talk about, something that is pertinent and an even bigger threat than the stuff they will discuss.

Corbett goes on to explain that there are really big shifts in the paradigms of life, and they do come rather suddenly. But he also insists that almost all of them were visible before they were thrust upon us. WW1 and WW2 were planned and executed by a the ruling classes of all the governments involved working together secretly, people who would not be hurt by the warfare. The fear porn vendors act as if every little thing is a paradigm shift, instead of pointing out how the thousand little fears together constitute a single complete plan.

Did you notice how COVID was used to establish the precedent that we will soon have to submit to digital tracking, not by advertisers, but tracking by government? Do you understand that this is why all those scammy services are coming around door to door in some places, offering a “free phone and cell service” to people who receive any kind of federal assistance? Yeah, that includes me with my VA disability and Social Security pensions. The whole point is that the nexus of tracking will be cellphones funded by some obscure government program. You cannot turn off the tracking or limit it in any way, by contract; the phone will be federal property.

(Side note: It’s crappy phone service, by the way. Lots of data limitations, etc. The free phone is junk, loaded with mandatory spyware and advertising, plus restrictions on the apps you can install. And it means only one resident per household gets that phone; everyone else has do without. You can’t even get the option to add lines at your cost.)

But that tracking is not quite here yet, in the sense that it is fully mandatory on everyone. There are bits and pieces of the plan still missing. We still don’t have universal cellphone availability just yet; that’s coming. And there needs to be at least one more major event to force it down our throats. Meanwhile, more and more standard services, including government services, require a cellphone to access.

The denial of access to places and contact tracing is only part of it. They still need a means to force all your activities to pass through that phone. There are too many other devices on the Net that cannot be controlled that way. It’s going to take time, yet. That’s the truth.

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